News Release Archive: Exotic

2016

9/22/2016STScI-2016-321.Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars
Two is company, but three might not always be a crowd, at least in space. When astronomers found an extrasolar planet orbiting a neighboring star, a detailed analysis... (More)

2013

11/21/2013STScI-2013-5323.Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'
Astronomers using the combined power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered a far-flung... (More)

8/22/2013STScI-2013-3227.Hubble Takes Movies of Space Slinky
The universe is so big, and it takes so long for most celestial objects to change, that it is rare a telescope can catch something in motion. (More)

2012

11/30/2012STScI-2012-4231.'Dark Core' May Not Be So Dark After All
Now you see it, now you don't. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an unusually... (More)

2/2/2012STScI-2012-0839.Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy
A team of astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. (More)

6/22/2011STScI-2011-1744.Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans
A team of scientists studying the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, have pieced together the cluster's complex and violent history using telescopes... (More)

2009

9/9/2009STScI-2009-2550.Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)